(PC) Brandon v. Williams

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 KAIAN BRANDON, No. 2:14-cv-02883 TLN DMC P Plaintiff, v. ORDER L. WILLIAMS, et al., Defendants. 15 Plaintiff is a state prisoner, proceeding without counsel and in forma pauperis, with a civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. This action proceeds on Plaintiff’s claim alleging that defendants were deliberately indifferent to a known safety risk in violation of the Eighth Amendment when they failed to heed Plaintiff’s warnings that his cellmate was a danger to him and when they failed to intervene when the cellmate assaulted him. Pursuant to court order, the parties have submitted pretrial statements. In his pretrial statement, Plaintiff seeks the appointment of “an expert in the field of corrections, to provide testimony about their [sic] being a code of silence[,] about the history of a code of silence that has existed and is presently permeated among prison guards, which becomes more prevalent…